korenzel said:
From my experience with the game so far, the balance is a little off.
Quiet true, sadly
I decide to make a brief stop at the university in Erfurt before we return to Frankfurt.
Trainer plz
This should get Theocrat some well needed education and while we're at it...
Ashe is less fortunate.
Let's burn some money!
Winter has settled in while the two were studying.
Incidentally not the best time to travel.
Don't take risks here or it will cost you dearly.
More events:
and another encounter in the woods near Frankfurt. Bee yet again tries her charms. It works, sort of.
There’s only one way to defend a lady's honour.
The party is back in Frankfurt at last.
Now that we're already starting to become local heroes, we can risk to go after bigger fish.
It’s just another Raubritter. Yawn. The Frager pays quiet well however and our local reputation goes through the roof.
We get one more audience but it's just another Raubritter quest. The hardest part is to find the right castle, really.
During our travel back, the ox challenges a knight to a duel.
We blow off some steam with the local wildlife.
Spring is finally coming.
There is a shrine hidden in the woods. We donate some money in hopes to pimp our virtue.
We might as well listen to some interesting rumours. These Raubritter quests are starting to get dull.
Pass.
This sounds more up our alley. But Theocrat still doesn't know how to make any decent healing potions so he looks for the alchemist in Frankfurt he is finally able to locate.
Alchemists are cunts and I hate their guts. They can throw you out for the rest of the day just because you dare talking to them. This happens quiet a lot so I settled with doing a lot of reloads.
Upgrading the philosopher's stone. No idea what this one does yet.
Trading formulas.
Training.
Theocrat still can't use any of his available formulas since every single one of them apparently requires at least one exotic component you need to hunt down. I ain't got enough patience for that.
It’s a sign of things to come.
Some other ugly encounters later, we finally reach the mines.
At least two members are already beaten up but we try it anyways.
Translation: cheat mode is on
It's our first real dungeon with doors, traps and anything. This should be the point where you realize that the pathfinding ai sucks arse and either slows the game down to a crawl or just refuses to work outright. Best compromise for this I found was to let the group walk in a single file as often as possible but even then the party got stuck quiet a bit.
Anyways, onwards!
They’re dogs out of rocks? :/
This only happens when the party walks in a formation. We try to escape...
The dwarves know more ways to kill off Ashe though.
Those minor annoyances aside, we finally reach the door to the next level and get our skill upgrades.
Gosh, I suck at those. Uh... gold?
Meh, Bee can handle it (just kidding, just kidding
)
A few tries later...
Demons eh? We can take it!
Aha!
...
I'll try to find all the curses for the giggles.
The next side level is just some rooms with one chest (containing some much needed healing potions), many gargoyles and a secret door.
A tight hallway filled with all sorts of lethal traps? The ox says, bring it!
The passage only leads him in circles though.
This is getting rather unpleasant. I also forget to take screenshot from one door riddle so this LP is now officially a fragment.
Numbers! I can work with those!
Finding some chests we can now actually force open.
Our first contact with demonic forces:
which is soon rewarded by our very first holy relic.
Our first contact with the hardcore heathens:
The ox dies way too easy in this fight so I check what's wrong.
Crap, these explosive potions and traps really don't do your armour any good. I redistribute our gear then we try that again.
Thought you might like some girl on girl action
I really can't let go of this, sorry. Last door:
I wish we would have more potions for this but maybe it will work out?
Oh My God…
You can't redo this quest once you've failed and no matter what I try, the demon horde overpowers us easily. I make the strategic error to reload a save before we enter the mines to gear up. Once I'm done, the mine already is no more. I probably should have just given up at the end so we would still at least have all the stuff from the mines but whatever. Quiet a frustrating waste of three hours playtime. I think we'll need to bring a little distance between us and the shame.
This update is already getting too long again so I'll make a cut here but before that some minor spoilers.
for the bump and yeah, it is a pain but you appreciate it once a sunburst potion has saved your hide.
Gosh I fail a lot in this update. At least the second rescue mission succeeded.
